Primary Source Documents
bullet 1940 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet 1940s Ads
bullet The 1943 Detroit Race Riots
bullet 1944 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet African-Americans in World War II - photos
bullet After the Day of Infamy - 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
bullet Allied Conferences of WWII
bullet American and the Holocaust (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet America's Wars--World War II
bullet American Cultural History:  1940-1949
bullet Amerikanitos - Life During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
bullet A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
bullet Atomic Bomb Decision - Documents on the Decision to Use Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
bullet Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941
bullet Band of Brothers (Time.com)
bullet Battleship Row:  A Photographic History of Pearl Harbour
bullet Biography of America:  World War II (1941-1945) - Annenberg/CPB
bullet Children of the [Japanese Internment] Camps (The American Experience)
bullet The Chronology of World War II (History Central)
bullet City of Hiroshima Home Page
bullet Conscience and the Constitution (PBS)
bullet CORE Online:  1942-2002
bullet "A Critical Comparison Between Japanese and American Propaganda during World War II" - essay by Anthony V. Navarro
bullet D-Day (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet Dear Home...Letters from World War II (The History Channel)
bullet December 7, 1941- Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
bullet The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (Truman Presidential Library)
bullet Decoding Nazi Secrets (NOVA)
bullet Depression Era to World War II:  FSA/OWI / Photographs (1935-1945) - LOC
bullet Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II (NARA)
bullet Documents on the Decisions to Use Atomic Bombs on the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
bullet Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of the Japanese
bullet Enola Gay Exhibit (National Air and Space Museum-Smithsonian Institute)
bullet The Enola Gay Controversy
bullet Ernie Pyle's War
bullet Eleanor Roosevelt
bullet Eleanor and Franklin Institute
bullet Eleanor Roosevelt (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet Executive Orders - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
bullet "The Failure of the Tokyo Trial" - essay by Wu Tianwei
bullet The FDR Cartoon Archives - over 2400 cartoons!
bullet Fly Girls: The WASPs (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet Frank Capra's America
bullet Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives
bullet Franklin D. Roosevelt (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Franklin D. Roosevelt (2) - POTUS site
bullet "Fruits of Victory" - Herblock's political cartoons on the end of World War II
bullet General Douglas MacArthur (The American Experience)
bullet German Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
bullet A GI's Trip to London, 1944
bullet Great Britain Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
bullet Guts and Glory (The American Experience)
bullet Harry S. Truman (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Harry S. Truman (2) - POTUS site
bullet Hiroshima:  A Look Back
bullet "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Decision to Drop the Bomb" - Jung Oh in The Michigan Journal of History (Winter, 2002)
bullet Hiroshima Photo Exhibit
bullet Hiroshima:  Testimonials from Survivors
bullet Hiroshima:  Was It Necessary?
bullet History of Black Military Service:  From WWI through WWII
bullet The History of the Computer:  1940-1944
bullet The Holocaust
bullet The Internment of German American Civilians
bullet "The Internment Years" - Japanese-Americans
bullet "Interview with David Yamamoto on the Topic of the Japanese-American Internment" - Edited by Robert Marco and Grace Li-Hsing W in The Michigan Journal of History (Winter, 2002)
bullet Invasion of Normandy, 1944
bullet Japan Addresses Its War Responsibility (7 documents)
bullet Japanese American Internment
bullet A Japanese-American Nisei in the 20th Century
bullet Japanese Canadian Internment
bullet July 1942:  United We Stand (Smithsonian Institute)
bullet Lectures for the History of World War II - Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College
bullet Let's "Slap Some Japs"- The Music of WWII (audio files)
bullet A Long Way Home -  Growing Up Nisei in Japan During World War II
bullet "Loose Lips Sink Ships!"
bullet Major Events in:  1941    1942    1943    1944    1945
bullet Manzanar--America's Concentration Camp
bullet Map-->"1940--Japanese Expansion Before Pearl Harbor"
bullet Map-->"Losses in World War II"
bullet Map-->"Pearl Harbor"
bullet Map-->"The Second World War--Alliances" (several maps on the page)
bullet Map-->"Wars and Atrocities in the Second Quarter of the 20c:  1925-1950"
bullet Maps of World War II
bullet Memoir of a Civilian POW- An Oral History
bullet The Mexican Braceros:  1942-1964
bullet Midway @ nationalgeographic.com
bullet Military Cartoons
bullet Mobilization of the Home Front
bullet "A More Perfect Union" - Japanese Americans and the U. S. Constitution (Smithsonian)
bullet The Myths of Pearl Harbor
bullet The National D-Day Museum
bullet Navajo Code Talkers
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bullet "Navajo code talkers receive congressional medals" (7/25/2001)
bullet Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet
bullet News & Speeches- 1938-Dec. 1941 (audio files)
bullet News & Speeches- Dec. 7, 1941-June 5, 1944 (audio files)
bullet News & Speeches- D-Day through 1944 (audio files)
bullet Nisei, A Japanese American in the 20th Century
bullet Normandy:  1944
bullet NuclearFiles.org - many documents
bullet Operation Overlord
bullet Operation Paperclip
bullet "The Other War:  FDR's Battle Against Churchill and the British Empire" by L. Wolfe Printed in The American Almanac, August 28, 1995
bullet The Papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Avalon Project)
bullet Peace and War:  United States Foreign Policy:  1931-1941 - Dept. of State Publication (includes many documents)
bullet Pearl Harbor - Global News Portal
bullet "Pearl Harbor:  The First Energy War" - article in History Today (12/12/00)
bullet Pearl Harbor - photo slideshow
bullet Pearl Harbor:  Remembered
bullet Pearl Harbor Remembered (CNN)
bullet The Peoples' Century:  Fallout (1945-1995) - PBS
bullet The Peoples' Century:  Total War (1939-1945) - PBS
bullet Personal Diaries of World War II:  The Francis E. Seiss Collection The William J. Thomas Collection  ;  The Edna Wilson Collection
bullet Pictures (202) of World War II - NARA archives (all black-and-white)
bullet Political Cartoons of World War II - collection by Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel
bullet The Port Chicago Disaster
bullet Poster Girls of World War II
bullet Powers of Persuasion--Poster Art from World War II
bullet "Prelude to Internment" - Japanese-Americans
bullet The Price of Civilization:  Taxation in War and Depression (1933-1946)
bullet Produce for Victory--Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
bullet Project Gutenberg Edition of The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
bullet "Rabbit in the Moon" - memoir documentary by Emiko Omori (Japanese internment)
bullet Race for the Super Bomb (The American Experience)
bullet Radio in 1941
bullet Ration Cards Catalogue
bullet Rationed Fashion:  American Fashion During World War II
bullet Recruiting Posters for Women from World War II
bullet Relocation of Japanese-Americans
bullet "Remember Pearl Harbor!" - images of the event
bullet Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic)
bullet The Road to War (BBC)
bullet The Rutgers Oral History of World War II
bullet The Secret History of World War II (The Boston Globe)
bullet Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies (NOVA)
bullet "Sending Forth Another Dove" - Herblock's political cartoons on World War II
bullet Sorting fact from fiction in Pearl Harbor (the movie)
bullet Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
bullet They Drew Fire - Combat Artists in World War II (The American Experience)
bullet "Tokyo Rose"
bullet The Tuskegee Airmen--Overview: Legends of Tuskegee
bullet The Tuskegee Airmen:  The Sky Was the Limit - Black Pilots of World War II
bullet United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
bullet U. S. Latinos and Latinas in World War II
bullet USS Arizona--That Terrible Day!
bullet Vatican Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
bullet War Letters (The American Experience)
bullet The War Relocation Authority and The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II (Truman Library)
bullet War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
bullet Wartime Conferences, 1941-1945
bullet What Did You Do In the War, Grandma?
bullet WhiteHouseTapes.org -- The secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
bullet Women and War - Photographs from the Schlesinger Library Collections
bullet Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II - links at the bottom of the page
bullet Women Come to the Front--Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
bullet Women in World War II
bullet Words of Peace; Words of War - primary source documents on World War II (treaties, declarations, instruments of surrender)
bullet World War II and the Zoot Suit Riots (1943)
bullet World War II Factbook
bullet World War II:  The Homefront
bullet World War II Images - The Homefront"
bullet World War II Links on the Internet
bullet World War II Movies
bullet World War II Photo Gallery
bullet World War II Poster Collection
bullet World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art
bullet World War II Propaganda Posters
bullet World War II Resources on the Web
bullet World War II Timeline (extensive!)
bullet WRA Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
bullet Zoot Suit Riots

 
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bullet 1940:  Against Isolationism - Senator James F. Byrnes (SC) Refutes Lindbergh
bullet 1940:  Alien Registration [Smith] Act
bullet 1940:  “Not So Private Negotiations” - Mexico Expropriates the Oil Companies
bullet 1940:  The Reply to Mexico - Standard Oil Puts Forth Its Position
bullet 1940:  Statement of Policy on Segregation in the Armed Forces submitted by Robert P. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War and approved by President Roosevelt (10/9)
bullet 1940s:  Women Defense Workers - photos
bullet 1940s:  Women on the Home Front During World War II
bullet 1940s:  "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" - song lyrics about the WASPs
bullet 1940-60:  American Birthrate, 1940-1960 - chart
bullet 1940-62:  National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart
bullet 1940-90:  Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart
bullet 1940-95:  US military (national defense) outlays, 1940-95
bullet 1941-42:  Women in the Defense Industry (photos)
bullet 1941-43:  African-American Fighter Pilots
bullet 1941-45?:  "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty" -- Dorie Miller by David Stone Martin printed by the Government Printing Office for the Office of War Information
bullet 1941-45?:  "This is America....where the family is a sacred institution..." - war poster
bullet 1941-45?:  "Victory Waits on Your Fingers" - WW II propaganda poster produced by the Royal Typewriter Company for the U.S. Civil Service Commission
bullet 1941-45?:  "We Can Do It!" - WW II propaganda poster by J. Howard Miller for the War Production Co-ordinating Committee
bullet 1941-46:  Pearl Harbor Attack Investigations (multi document links)
bullet 1941:  “80 Rounds in Our Pants Pockets” - Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor (as recalled in 1991)
bullet 1941:  Address Delivered by President Roosevelt at Washington (3/15)
bullet 1941:  Address by Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, Delivered Before the 76th Session of the Imperial Diet, Jan. 21
bullet 1941:  “Aluminum for Defense” - Rationing at Home during World War II
bullet 1941:  Atlantic Charter
bullet 1941:  Attack at Pearl Harbor - eyewitness account (U. S. view)
bullet 1941:  Attack at Pearl Harbor - the Japanese view
bullet 1941:  Cartoonists on the Picket Line - The Walt Disney Studio Strike
bullet 1941:  Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address
bullet 1941:  "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt (12/8)
bullet 1941:  Declaration of a State of War with Germany, Italy, & Japan (multiple document links on one page)
bullet 1941:  Executive Order 8802 (6/25)
bullet 1941:  Fireside Chat on the Declaration of War with Japan -  FDR (12/9)
bullet 1941:  "Four Freedoms" Speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt
bullet 1941:  German Declaration of War on the United States
bullet 1941:  Japanese Note to the United States United States December 7
bullet 1941:  Joint Resolution Declaring That a State of War Exists Between The Imperial Government of Japan and the Government And the People of the United States and Making Provisions To Prosecute the Same (12/8)
bullet 1941:  Lend-Lease Act (3/11)
bullet 1941:  The “Man in the Street” Reacts to Pearl Harbor
bullet 1941:  Memorandum, "Saving the Race," Thurgood Marshall to the NAACP legal staff concerning voting rights cases in Texas (11/17)
bullet 1941:  Message to Congress on the Atlantic Charter - Franklin D. Roosevelt
bullet 1941:  Mitchell v. United States
bullet 1941:  Naval dispatch from the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (12/7)
bullet 1941:  Pearl Harbor Attack - photo
bullet 1941:  Proclamation 2525 - Alien Enemies - Japanese (12/7)
bullet 1941:  Proclamation 2526 - Alien Enemies - Germans (12/8)
bullet 1941:  Proclamation 2527 - Alien Enemies - Italians (12/8)
bullet 1941:  Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency
bullet 1941:  "Remember Pearl Harbor" - song lyrics by Don Reid
bullet 1941:  Third Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
bullet 1941:  “This Is No Joke--This Is War” - A Live Radio Broadcast of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
bullet 1941:  U.S.-Japan Diplomatic Communications Prior to Pearl Harbor - many memorandums, telegrams, etc. in chronological order (over 195 individual documents)
bullet 1941:  United States Note to Japan (11/26)
bullet 1941:  "Our destiny is in his hands. We will not accept a Hitler-dominated world." - a reproduction of a cartoon from the Detroit Free Press of Thursday, 5/29
bullet 1941-42:  Various documents on the Internment of Japanese-Americans      (additional documents)
bullet 1941-42:  Washington Conference Documents
bullet 1942:  Address by Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of  State at the Third Meeting of  Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics (1/24)
bullet 1942:  "Behind the News": Japanese Won't be Welcomed Back - San Francisco News  (4/29)
bullet 1942:  "Behind the News": Negro-Japanese Fifth Column Possible" - San Francisco News (3/2)
bullet 1942:  Battle of Midway - eyewitness account
bullet 1942:  Concentration Camps for Japanese Wanted by Western Governors - San Francisco News (3/2)
bullet 1942:  "Dear Mr. President" - song lyrics by Pete Seeger
bullet 1942:  "Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them" - WW II propaganda poster by Lawrence B. Smith produced for the U. S. Treasury by the GPO
bullet 1942:  Editorial--"Their Best Way to Show Loyalty" - San Francisco News  (3/6)
bullet 1942:  Executive Order 9066 - FDR - relocation of Japanese-Americans directive (2/19)
bullet 1942:  Fireside Chat on the Subject of Total War and Total Effort - FDR (4/28)
bullet 1942:  Fireside Chat on Inflation and the Progress of the War - FDR (9/7)
bullet 1942:  "Gas Rationing" - Jack Benny, Burns & Allen radio comedy show (sound file)
bullet 1942:  "Greatest Forced Migration in American History to Begin" - San Francisco News (3/4)
bullet 1942:  "Grow it Yourself" - war poster by Herbert Bayer (Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
bullet 1942:  "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" leaflet/poster - distributed by the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration, Presidio of San Francisco, CA (5/3) - photo by Dorothea Lange
bullet 1942:  A Japanese Soldier Describes the Horrors of Guadalcanal
bullet 1942:  Letter to Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce from Lt. John F. Kennedy, U. S. Navy
bullet 1942:  "Manzanar Nice Place – It Better Than Hollywood," by United Press – (4/21)
bullet 1942:  Map of the Relocation and Assembly Centers
bullet 1942:  Milton Eisenhower Justifies the Internment of Japanese Americans
bullet 1942:  Mutual Aid Agreement Between the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. (6/11)
bullet 1942:  "Native American Women Marine Reservists" - photo
bullet 1942:  “Obey Your Air Raid Warden” - Big Band as Public Service Announcement
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